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“Garden, The” (Marvell), 169
“Gardener, The” (Kipling), 328
Gardening, 40, 55
Garland, Lorraine, 18–19
Garner, Alan, 83
Geidt, Jeremy, 487
Gender and books, 67–72
Genre fiction, 41–43, 47–48
“Geoff Notkin: Meteorite Man,” 141–43
Ghastly Beyond Belief (Newman and Gaiman, eds.), 145–46, 196
“Ghosts in the Machines: Some Hallowe’en Thoughts,” 49–53
Ghost stories, 50–53
Gibbons, Dave, 222, 289
Gibbs, A. Hamilton, 122
Gibson, William, 183; “Burning Chrome,” 398–99; Neuromancer, 187
“Gift, The” (song), 398
Gilbert, W. S., 35
Gilliam, Terry, 207, 208, 301
GK’s Weekly, 346
Golden Globes, 465–66, 467
Goldman, William, 426
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 46–47
“Gonna Roll the Bones” (Leiber), 190
“Good Comics and Tulips: A Speech,” 229–37
Good Omens (Pratchett and Gaiman), 102–3, 457, 498–99, 500
Google, 10, 41, 73, 359
Goosebumps (Stine), 85
Gotti, John, 131
Grandenetti, Jerry, 279
Gravett, Paul, 106–7
Graveyard Book, The (Gaiman), 16, 18, 19–20, 22–24
Graveyards, 22–23
Gray, Nicholas Stuart, 17
Great Cow Race, The (Smith), 267, 268, 273
Greenland, Colin, 438–39, 441–42
Green Mile, The (King), 138
Gregory, Marc, 405–6
Grimm Brothers, 268, 423–24
Grisham, John, 121
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 68
Gumshoe (Thompson), 150–53
Gursky, Steve, 234
“Half Jack” (song), 481–82
Hallowe’en, 49–53, 478–79
Happiest Days of Your Life, The (play), 80–81
Hard Candy (movie), 214
Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the “Frenzy of the Visible” (Williams), 43–44
Harris, Neil Patrick, 466
Harrison, Jane Ellen, 425
Harrison, M. John, 361–66
“Harry’s Circumcision” (song), 409
Hartnell, William, 219, 220
Harvey Awards Keynote Speech (2004), 300–307
Harvey Comics, 287
Havel, Václav, 403, 410, 413, 414
“Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?” (song), 415
Hayden, Teresa Nielsen, 42
“Hearing Aid” (song), 396
Heavenly Breakfast (Delany), 189
Heifetz, Merrilee, 18–19, 86
Heinlein, Robert, 170–71, 187, 261
Hellbound Heart, The (Barker), 148
Hellraiser (movie), 148
Helplessness, 82, 89
Henson, Brian, 209–10
Henson, Jim, 205, 206
Henson, Lisa, 205–6, 210, 213
Herbert, Frank, 193, 194
Hering, Henry, 445
Hernandez, Jaime and Koko, 285
Herriman, George, 296, 303
“Hi, by the Way: Tori Amos,” 389–90
Hiding the Elephant (Steinmeyer), 382
Hill, Joe (Joe King), 130, 134, 137
Hillis, Danny, 380n
Hillyer, Ed, 255
Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (Simpson), Foreword to, 114–16
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (Adams), 114–15, 368, 370–72
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (movie), 369
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (radio series), 368
Hoban, Russell, 378
Hobbit, The (Tolkien), 35
“Home of the Brave” (song), 403–4
“Hop-Frog” (Poe), 317
Horatio Stubbs Saga (Aldiss), 171
“Hot Cha” (song), 396
Hothouse (Aldiss), Introduction to, 169–76
Howard, Robert E., 168, 348
“How Dare You: On America, and Writing About It,” 64–66
“How to Read Gene Wolfe,” 111–13
Hubbard, L. Ron, 261
Hugo Award, 170–71, 175
Hurt Locker, The (movie), 468
Hutchins, Jim, 402
I, Robot (Asimov), 27
Iceland, 70
“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” (Ellison), 119
Imagination, 13–14
Imagine (magazine), 145
Immigrant experience, 65
“I’m Set Free” (song), 399
Infantino, Carmine, 264, 266
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age (Doctorow), 340–43
Information glut, 10–11
Intelligent Life (magazine), 448
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, keynote speech (2013), 39–48
Interzone, 144–45
“In the Abyss” (Wells), 335
In Viriconium (Harrison), 364, 365
Invisible Man, The (Wells), 329–30
Irving, Henry, 325
Island of Dr. Moreau, The (Wells), 330
Ismayilova, Khadija, 74
“Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” (song), 395
Jacket, The (movie), 213–14
Jack the Ripper, 147, 248
James, John, 356–60
Jaworczyn, Stefan, 147–48
“Jeep Song, The” (song), 481
Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond (Filipi), 267–73
Jillette, Penn, 215, 381
Jim Henson Company, 205–6, 208–13, 224
Jimmy Corrigan (Ware), 296
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Clarke), Introduction to, 438–42
Jones, Chuck, 268
Jones, Diana Wynne: Dogsbody, 97, 376–76; “Reflections: On Diana Wynne Jones,” 95–99
Jones, Steve, 352
Jones, Terry, 208
Jordan, Neil, 425–26
Jordan, UNHCR camps, 491–97
Jorkens, Joseph, 433–34
Joyland (King), 131, 134
Jungle Book, The (Kipling), 23
Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (Cabell), 28
Kahn, Jenette, 280
Kambriel, 463–64, 465
Kane, Bob, 247, 266, 293
Karloff, Boris, 201–4
Keeler, Harry Stephen, 280
Kelly, Walt, 268, 271
“Kicks” (song), 403
King, Carole, 480
King, Naomi, 137
King, Owen, 130, 137
King, Stephen, xvi, 123, 328, 351, 457; Carrie, 8, 85, 131–32, 136, 137; “On Stephen King,” 129–40; ‘Salem’s Lot, 131–32, 137, 323
King, Tabitha, 130–33, 135–36, 137, 140
King Foundation, 132–33
King of Elfland’s Daughter, The (Dunsany), 425, 426, 433–35
Kipling, Rudyard, 23, 327–28
Kirby, Jack, 260, 274–81
Kirby: King of Comics (Evanier), Introduction to, 274–77
Kirby, Ronald William “Josh,” 109
Kittelsen, Theodor, 430
Kleinschmidt, Kilian, 494
Klinger, Les, 325–26
Knight, Laura, 473
Knockabout Comics, 75–76
Kraków University, 46
Krazy Kat (Herriman), 303
Krigstein, Bernie, 296
Kryptonite Kid, The, 258, 259–60
Kupferberg, Tuli, 165
Kurtzman, Harvey, 142, 300–301
La Belle et la Bête (movie), 424–25
Labyrinth (movie), 205, 206, 208
Lafferty, R. A., 28, 30, 165, 168
Lanchester, Elsa, 201–4
Landau, Yair, 213
Larkin, Philip, 481–82
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Selby), 403
Laumer, Keith, 193
Layer Cake (movie), 212–13
League of Extr
aordinary Gentlemen, The (movie), 223, 224
Lee, Stan, 260, 274
Legendary Pink Dots, 479
Le Guin, Ursula K., xvi, 83
Leiber, Fritz, 165–68, 190, 348
Lemon, Denis, 75–76
L’Engle, Madeleine, 20
Levitz, Paul, 247
Lewis, C.S., 9, 27, 33–35, 38, 68, 81, 97
Lewis, Matthew “Monk,” 265
Lexton, Maria, 156
Librarians, 9–10, 17–18, 24, 297
Libraries, 5–6, 9–15, 16–18
Liefeld, Rob, 250, 251
Life, the Universe and Everything (Adams), 368
“Ligeia” (Poe), 318, 321
Light (Harrison), 365
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (Lewis), 33–34
Literacy, 6–7, 11–12, 15
Little Nemo (McCay), 303
Lloyd, David, 225
Lloyd, John, 115, 368
Loaded (album), 398
Locus, 41
Look Magazine, “Sundance Diary,” 212–16
“Lord of the Dynamos, The” (Wells), 333–34
Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), xvi, 35–37, 440–41
“Lou Reed, in Memoriam: ‘The Soundtrack to My Life’”, 397–414
Lovecraft, H. P., xvi, 168, 347–52
“Lucky Ball and Chain” (song), 395
Lud-in-the-Mist (Mirrlees), 425, 426, 436–37, 440
Lugosi, Bela, 323
Lumley, Brian, 350
Lunatic Heroes (Martignetti), 488, 489
McAdams, Rachel, 465, 467, 469
McCay, Winsor, 296, 303
McCloud, Scott, 260, 293, 310
MacDonald, John D., 132, 139
McIntosh, J. T., 82
Mackay, Charles, 229–32
McKay, Nellie, 478
McKean, Clare, 107, 108
McKean, Dave, 243, 251; MirrorMask (movie), 205–16, 224, 226; “On Dave McKean,” 106–10
Madden, Matt, 310
“Made in USA” (McIntosh), 82
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 437
Magic (magicians), 380–82
Magic and Loss (album), 404, 411, 413
Mahurin, Matt, 410
Major, John, 121
“Make Good Art,” 451–59
Mandeville, John, 172
Manhattan, 154–55
“Man Who Could Work Miracles, The” (Wells), 336
“Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore, The” (Ellison), 123–24
Man Who Was Thursday, The (Chesterton), 37–38, 345
Marder, Larry, 239
Marquee Club (London), 157
Martian Chronicles, The (Bradbury), 27, 181
Martignetti, Anthony, 483–90
Martignetti, Laura, 485, 488–89
Martin, George R. R., 258
Martin, J. P., 17, 83
Martin, Steve, 466
Marvell, Andrew, 169
“Masque of the Red Death, The” (Poe), 318, 320
Maus (Spiegelman), 222, 289, 295
Mayer, Robert, Superfolks, 258
McCauley, Paul, Eye of the Tyger, 217–21
Mehta, Sonny, 369, 371
Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick, 259, 267–68
Merril, Judith, 165
Metal Machine Music (album), 399, 406
Meteorites, 142–43
Milford Writers’ Workshop, 95
Milholland, Randy, 306
Miller, Frank, 222, 226, 233, 250, 296
“Minimum Wage” (song), 396
Mirrlees, Hope, Lud-in-the-Mist, 425, 426, 436–37, 440
MirrorMask (movie), 205–16, 224, 226; Sundance diary, 212–16
MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture, 205–11
Misery (King), 134
Mistakes, 304–5, 455
Mistrial (album), 402
Mitchell, Margaret, 134; Gone with the Wind, 46–47
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Herman), 259, 267–68
Monk, The (Lewis), 265
Monstrous Regiment (Pratchett), 104
Moorcock, Michael, 83, 84, 171, 363–64; A Cure for Cancer, 121; Stormbringer, 165
Moore, Alan, 222, 233, 248, 250, 295–96, 303, 377–79; From Hell, 248, 255, 377; Supreme, 259; V for Vendetta, 224–25; Voice of the Fire, 377–79
Morris, Mark, 204
Morrison, Grant, 303
Morritt, Charles, 381
Mosnier, Jean-Laurent, 473
“Moth, The” (Wells), 334
Moth, The: This Is a True Story, Introduction for, 383–85
Motion of Light in Water, The (Delany), 189
Movies, 201–16; “A View from the Cheap Seats,” 463–69; and comics, 222–26, 241–42
Mr. Punch (Gaiman and McKean), 107
Mugnier, Arthur, 57
Music, 389–420; copyright laws, 341–42
Musicals compared with pornographic films, 43–44
Muth, Jon, 243
MythCon 35 Guest of Honor Speech (2004), 33–38
Myths, 54–63
Myths of the Norsemen, 54
Nancarrow, Conlon, 107
Napoleon of Notting Hill, The (Chesterton), 37–38
Napster, 341–42
National Book Foundation, 134
National Portrait Gallery, 471–75
“Nature of the Infection, The: Some Thoughts on Doctor Who,” 217–21
Nebula Awards speech (2005), 192–97
Negotiations, 247–48
Neuromancer (Gibson), 187
Neverwhere (Gaiman), 67, 428
Neverwhere (TV series), 220, 242
“New Accelerator, The” (Wells), 337
New Annotated Dracula (Stoker), Introduction to, 323–26
Newbery Medal Speech (2009), 16–25
Newman, Kim, 144–49, 220, 323
New Statesman, 76
Newton, Isaac, 303
New Wave: definition of, 120
New Worlds (magazine), 120, 171
New Yorker (magazine), 18, 120, 310
New York’s Village Halloween Parade, 51
Nicholls, Peter, 376; Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 102, 120, 172, 183
Nightmare Movies (Newman), 145
Night Watch (Pratchett), 104
1984 (Orwell), 187
Niven, Larry, 258
“Nobody’s Guide to the Oscars, A,” 463–69
“No Money Down” (song), 410
Non-Stop (Aldiss), 172–73
Norse sagas, 357–59
Not for All the Gold in Ireland (James), 357, 359–60
Notkin, Geoff, 141–43, 284
Notkin, Sam, 141, 142
Nova (Delany), 30, 190
Ocean at the End of the Lane, The (Gaiman), 88–89, 446–47
“Of Time, and Gully Foyle: Alfred Bester and The Stars My Destination,” 183–86
Of Worlds Beyond (Eshbach, ed.), 261
Oliver, Edgar, 383–84
“Once Upon a Time,” 423–29
“On Dave McKean,” 106–10
“On The 13 Clocks by James Thurber,” 353–55
“On Viriconium: Some Notes Toward an Introduction,” 361–66
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 12
Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories, The (Newman), Introduction to, 144–49
Original Plays (Gilbert), 35
Orpheus, 188
Orwell, George, 183, 187
Oscars, 463–69
Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (comic), 75
Outsider and Others, The (Lovecraft), 349
“Pace That Kills, The” (Keith Roberts writing as Alistair Bevan), 82
Palmer, Amanda, 86, 454; and Anthony Martignetti, 483–88; The Dresden Dolls, 477–83; Evelyn Evelyn, 415–18, 480; Who Killed Amanda Palmer (album), 419–20, 487–88
Pan Book of Horror Stories, 27, 83
Pan Books, 369
Pangborn, Edgar, 47
“Particle Man”
(song), 395
Pastel City, The (Harrison), 361–62, 363–64
“Patricia’s Profession” (Newman), 144–45
Peace (Wolfe), 112
Peace and Love Corporation, 147–48
Peak, Bob, 251
“Pedestrian, The” (Bradbury), 179–80
PEN Awards, 73–76
Penn, Sean, 468
PEN World Voices Festival (2007), 383
“Perfect Day” (song), 405–6
Perkins, Geoffrey, 115
Perrault, Charles, 59, 424
Perret, Patti, 94
Pertwee, Jon, 219
Photographs of authors, 93–94
“Pickman’s Model” (Lovecraft), 352
Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), 428
“Plattner Story, The” (Wells), 335
Plus Books, 29–30
Poe, Edgar Allan, 27, 317–21
Poe, John Allan, 320
Pop, Iggy, 275
Pornographic films compared with musicals, 43–44
“Pornography of Genre, or the Genre of Pornography, The,” 39–48
Portraiture, 471–76
Pratchett, Terry, 100–105, 394–95; A Slip of the Keyboard, 489–502; “Terry Pratchett: An Appreciation,” 100–105
Price, Vincent, 318–19
Princess Bride, The (Goldman), 426
Prisoners of Gravity (TV series), 268–69
Prison industry, 6
“Problem with Susan, The” (Gaiman), 38
ProCon speech (1997), 238–52
Provenza, Paul, 215
PS (magazine), 291
Quinn, Marc, 475
Quinn, Seabury, 348
Rackham, Arthur, 428, 430
Radomsko Ghetto, 46–47
Rathbone, Basil, 318
Rat Race, The (Bester), 185
“Raven, The” (Poe), 319–20
Raw Power (album), 275
“Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 and What Science Fiction Is and Does,” 177–82
ReaderCon 11 program book (1999), 125–28
Readers: as collaborators, 40–41; obligation to, 13–14
Reading, 5–15
Reading Agency Lecture (2013), 5–15
Rebecca (du Maurier), 134
Red Riding Hood, 59, 60, 425–26
Reed, Kit, 166
Reed, Lou, 114, 141, 397–414
Reed, Sylvia, 406
Reflections (Jones), Foreword to, 95–99
Reinventing Comics (McCloud), 310
“Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes, The” (Wells), 334
“Remembering Douglas Adams,” 114–16
Report on Probability A (Aldiss), 171–72
Restaurant at the End of the Universe, The (Adams), 368
Return of the King, The (Tolkien), 36
Return of the Shadow, The (Tolkien), 36
Revolt in 2100 (Heinlein), 187
Rex, Adam, 87
Riddell, Chris, 4
Riddley Walker (Hoban), 378
Roadmarks (Zelazny), 30
Robinson, James, 157
Rock Bottom Remainders, 130
Rock Star: Adventures of a Meteorite Man (Notkin), Introduction to, 141–43